There is part of us that is young and part of us that is old. The young part of us is post-industrial. The old part is primal. The young has created the LAW. The political and legal structures that now govern us. It defines how we now function and live. Law is based on property ownership. The industrial story says we humans use the natural world as a resource. Our Law apportions up the these resources between us. The old relates to the natural world as a shared existence. This is the LORE. The old part of us knows how to listen and be in relationship with the LORE where everything is connected to everything else.
Part of our natural emergence is to explore SEPARATION. We sit with deep conundrums. The Old Ways cannot be because so much has changed. Going back is not an option. When we use the term indigenous what are we saying? Is it a reference to looking back? Remembering how it was is about taking stock. And yet who we were is no how we are going to be. What indigenous means is a dynamic opportunity. It is an unknown. Is it even appropriate to invoke what was our indigenous nature?
When we speak to those living more traditional or indigenous ways they say, 'When you look at yourself the question is;
How do you live best?
What does it look like?
Who do you go to when problems don't seem to be solvable?'
In Southern African tribes the first port of call is the maternal Uncle, the paternal Uncle, then grandparents and then the ancestors.
Where do we go when we sit with the problems we face now?
The Young part of us in Western cultures goes to our logical selves, the practical ways.
The Old part of us of us goes to a collective notion of culture, the ancestors, those possibly not on the physical plane any longer. This is very difficult for the Western mind to fathom or relate to. The Western mind tend stop apply its individualistic view. We lose much from the original traditional ways. A lot of what we are seeing is not what it was!
The conditions and contexts we now face are totally new.
We are all in the dark. The old traditional ones and the young industrial ones.
Darkness is providing the conditions for transformation.
We finds ourselves responding to feelings.
We are following a calling.
We are seeing the tensions.
We are open to exploration.
Conflict is dynamic.
It's an alchemical process.
Remember Heat TRANSFORMS.
The essence of the new exists. To get to it we have to remove that which hides it. Thereby revealing the flame. It's no surprise we find ourselves living through experiences and times filled with conflict, we see attraction and feel this as heat. All of which presents the conditions for transformation and change.
Conflict is not therefore in and of itself negative. Conflict is a part of the creative principle.
What do we do now?
WE TRACK THE NEW INTO BEING
Traditional 'old' people say the basis of tracking is to follow the story. We have to track the emergent story. It's a multidimensional process involving our spiritual selves, intuitive selves and our sense.
The Sand people would say, first invoke the spirit of the animal within yourself. [TLOU]
What does it mean to invoke the spirit of my indigenousness?
Invocation has practices.
The spirit will tell you what to do.
What do you do when tracks disappear?
You change channels.
Move from spirit, to intuition, to your senses.
Keep moving until you can pick up the track again and continue to follow the story.
Tracks will come and go.
When in the mystery we don't always know rationally what is happening and yet we will know when we know in all our other ways of being, doing and knowing.
For Colin Campbell his wild indigenousness relates to wild unmanaged lands. I am on the tracks of my own wild lands.
Excentuate, regenerate and relate to the wilds within and the wilds without.
To begin the tracking we invite everyones voices to be heard. A spiralling inwards for our group. Time for the practice of Council.
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